Tomorrow morning several thousand people will retreat to a decommissioned
airfield on the southern tip of Brooklyn to spend the first day of their
weekend running over tyres, crawling beneath an electric fence and wading
through a “blood pit”.

The real attraction for many participants, however, is that they get to do all
these things while being pursued by men and women in heavy make-up and
stained clothes who profess a desire to eat their brains.

For this privilege, the chance to be chased by zombies, they have paid around
$75 (£46). A place in the army of the undead,